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The God Who Is Beauty

Beauty as a Divine Name in Thomas Aquinas and Dionysius the Areopagite

By: Brendan Thomas Sammon

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The God Who Is Beauty

Beauty as a Divine Name in Thomas Aquinas and Dionysius the Areopagite

By: Brendan Thomas Sammon

When in the sixth century Dionysius the Areopagite declared beauty to be a name for God, he gave birth to something that had long been gestating in the womb of philosophical and theological thought. In doing so, Dionysius makes one of his most pivotal contributions to Christian theological discourse. It is a contribution that is enthusiastically received by the schoolmen of the Middle Ages, and it comes to permeate the thought of scholasticism in a multitude of ways. But perhaps nowhere is the Dionysian influence more pronounced than in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. This book examines both the historical development of beauty's appropriation as a name for God in Dionysius and Thomas, and the various contours of what it means. The argument that emerges from this study is that given the impact that the divine name theological tradition has within the development of Christian theological discourse, beauty as a divine name indicates the way in which beauty is most fundamentally conceived in the Christian theological tradition as a theological theme. As a phenomenon of inquiry, beauty proves itself to be enigmatic and elusive to even the sharpest intellects in the Greek philosophical tradition. When it is absorbed within the Christian theological synthesis, however, its enigmatic content proves to be a powerful resource for theological reasoning.

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Called to Attraction

An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty

By: Brendan Thomas Sammon

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An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty

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What if there is more to beauty than meets the eye? What if beauty named more than the human response to a thing's appearance, but instead named the very presence of God in the world? And what if beauty provided a power enabling human beings to think in novel and creative ways, to see with new eyes? This book explores the various ways in which the Christian theological tradition has provided responses to these questions. Taking its starting point from the view that beauty is above all a divine name, this book explores the consequences that such a starting point has not only for the human experience of beauty but also for the way in which beauty penetrates to the very heart of human nature, uplifting and inspiring human thought and action to ever new frontiers of existence. In its experience of beauty, so this book argues, the human spirit encounters the divine presence in unexpected and transformative ways, such that one may come to see that not only is God beautiful, but God is beauty itself!

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The God Who Is Beauty

Beauty as a Divine Name in Thomas Aquinas and Dionysius the Areopagite

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Beauty as a Divine Name in Thomas Aquinas and Dionysius the Areopagite

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Called to Attraction

An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty

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An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty

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